12/09/06 Cruise Continued ~ Pirating Bananas DIS Geekorama Part 2 Part 8

[87Heel]

You are silly tonight! I'd have some of that wine, but someone sent their cold here to me instead. Sudafed & wine... probably not a good mix.

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

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[BuzzBoyMom]

after

 

[pyramid2000]

John!

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

Hi Marielle - please tell us you had a great day.

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[87Heel]

Here's the big achievement in our house for the day: DS is finally willing to pull down his own pants/underwear. (Potty training is great, but he was being lazy and expecting a personal attendant each trip). Slowly stepping closer to fully prepared for the club on the cruise!

 

[becka]

 

[MrsMork]

Cruise-related question -- Anyone else with boys......you are bringing/renting tuxes for formal night?

We've done this on the longer cruises, but I was kind of hoping to forgo it this time. But, I don't want to skip eating in the dining room. Could youngest DS get by with a pair of nice khakis and a dark navy sport coat (with shirt/tie) on Formal night? Or do I bite the bullet and rent 'em again?

Older DS now has a black suit that could almost pass for a tux.

DH will wear whatever I tell him.

(Well, not anything.....I'm pretty sure he'd give thumbs down to a banana outfit!)

we are just doing a little suit for our Aaron. Note to self: still need to get said suit AND pirate outfit for DGS.

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

John!

Hey we could play smilie shardes...with the smilie representing one of us!!

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[87Heel]

Hi Marielle - please tell us you had a great day.

Hey, does the underwear thing count as a great day?!

 

[becka]

I am sorry a few of you had such bad days. At least we all have the cruise to look forward to in less than 2 months. We all just have to hold on!

Karen - your son's teacher sounds like a moron. It sounds like she is the one that needs a lesson in responsibility.

 

[pyramid2000]

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

Here's the big achievement in our house for the day: DS is finally willing to pull down his own pants/underwear. (Potty training is great, but he was being lazy and expecting a personal attendant each trip). Slowly stepping closer to fully prepared for the club on the cruise!

 

[87Heel]

Hi Marielle - please tell us you had a great day.

Oh, he kept it pointed in the potty every time today (sometimes other areas are sprayed instead)

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

Are we playing charades? Cause the little red towards the back looks like me?!!

 

[becka]

Maybe I can make you guys laugh a little. At dinner DD has her sippy cup and she pushes it where it starts to roll off the end. I stand up and reach over to try to get it but it falls in the chair. I then walk around to the chair and lean over to pick it up when my foot hits the bottom of the chair and I tip forward. My hand then slips off the cup and jams right in the back of the chair with two of my fingers going directions that God did not intend. I keep falling and end up slamming my forearm into the back of the chair and just about spin around and fall right into the window. It all happened in about 2 seconds and I can assure you I was quite graceful!

It apparently looked so scary that DD started to cry and it took me almost a minute trying to calm her down and assure her I was OK all the while I was trying not to hop around screaming "Ow ow ow ow ow..." because I didn't want to scare her anymore than she already was.

I am such a klutz!

 

[tynkerbell]

Warning - irate mom logged in...with wine in hand!

I wish I could share the weeks of details...but basically, my son's 3rd grade teacher is just not a good teacher. Straight A students, like my son, are now getting Fs....she doesn't finish a chapter and gives them tests..she says a test is on one day and moves the test without telling students or parents. This week, she schedule a test on Wed. She "ran out of time" and didn't get to it so it was supposed to be rescheduled for tomorrow. There were already 2 other tests scheduled for tomorrow. That makes 3 tests on one night for a 3rd grader.

My DS hands me his backpack and heads to football practice and their team pizza party. I open the backpack and there isn't a single book inside. !!!!! INSERT STEAM RISING OFF MOM'S HEAD SMILIE!!!! I'm irate. I'm ready to drag him out of that pizza party that he earned and drag him home to give him a speech about responsibility and the importance of studying...so he can get a good job and read the Dis boards all day (yes, I can still joke!). I speak to a friend who was at the school...got a janitor to open the classroom...she got my DS's books..so...okay..now we have to study...but I'm still so disappointed in my son.

THEN...and this is why the wine was opened I get 2 calls from 2 other irate parents...who tell me that of the 3 tests that were scheduled...their kids are telling them there will be NO TESTS tomorrow. Huh?!!! I mean - okay, nice. But what kind of a teacher is this???? Thank God for other parents! Here I was about to chew into my little innocent child b/c I have no idea there were no tests. I am so grateful that these parents called me.

.....just to add...for the last month and a half....8 families have had meetings with the teacher...me included. My meeting was with the teacher and the principal who is now observing in the classroom b/c there have been so many complaints.

....AND .... this is a teacher who supposedly has 18 years of experience but has only been at our school for 1 year and last year she taught 6th grade but there were so many complaints, they moved her to 3rd grade.




okay...sipping wine....sipping....sippping

Thanks for letting me rant. I knew I could come to you guys.
Have I told you guys lately how glad I am that you're here?!!

 

[MrsMork]

Little boys in tuxes are just about the cutest thing ever!

Big boys in tuxes are pretty easy on the eyes too!

 

[pyramid2000]

Are we playing charades? Cause the little red towards the back looks like me?!!

 

[becka]

Big boys in tuxes are pretty easy on the eyes too!

The only thing better is guys in military dress uniforms!